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DYK for Sydney Gardens

The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for the query on the old local manor. I've replied on my talk and could do with a bit of info locally on something else. Adam37 (talk) 14:36, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2013 June newsletter

We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Poland Piotrus (submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, New South Wales Casliber (submissions) and Canada Sasata (submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 10:13, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Bristol Wiki Meetup

You are invited to the Bristol Wiki Meetup which will take place at The Commercial Rooms, 43-45 Corn Street, Bristol BS1 1HT on Sunday 28 July 2013 from 1.00 pm. If you have never been to one, this is an opportunity to meet other Wikipedians in an informal atmosphere for Wiki and non-Wiki related chat and for beer or food if you like. Experienced and new contributors are all welcome. This event is definitely not restricted just to discussion of Bristol topics. Bring your laptop if you like and use the free Wifi or just bring yourself. Even better, bring a friend! Click the link for full details. Looking forward to seeing you. Philafrenzy (talk) 22:15, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

More on listed building templates

Hi, yes I can do something similar for Somerset. I'll give you a ping once I have something for you.

  • Yes wikilinks will need to be done manually. There's no way for my simple script to work out whether something should be wikilinked and where to including disambiguation.
  • 6, 8 or 10 number grid references are adjustable when it's calculated from the latitude & longitude. The resolution is there from the lat/lon, so why not include it for grid references as well? But that's up to you. I can do whatever.
  • Not for Wales. For England, Scotland & N.I., it's possible to link directly to the heritage organisation page of the listed building. That is not possible for Wales. An option is provided in the template to link it to a specified URL. See Grade I listed buildings in Bridgend for example.
  • If you mean for Somerset, that's up to you. The information is available from the source for Wales, which is not true for England. It is an optional column for England though as one or more of the existing list has such an column and information.
  • They are straight copied from the source spreadsheet where that is the case. One of the todo task is for a human to go through each of the list to fix that, while wikilinking along the way for example.
  • That came up in an earlier comment as you might have read. I have no preference either way. For England, a name is a name with no description so would make sense.

WLM is for pictures of both those that already exist and those that don't. Obviously, pictures of buildings that don't have pictures or much better quality than existing images are more valuable, but there's no limit.

I will have to look into the existing FLs. I may have to make specific individual template for them to keep everyone happy.

Well, it's on or near a beach! :D Fix it if you spot it is probably the best I can recommend here. -- KTC (talk) 20:21, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

See User:Katie Chan (WMUK)/sandbox. -- Katie Chan (WMUK) (talk) 13:12, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
!row & !col are in there already. -- Katie Chan (WMUK) (talk) 13:30, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Teamwork Barnstar
Good on you, Rodw! Amandajm (talk) 10:52, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Gotta be careful who you ask for copyedits! I was just observing the comments of a particular editor who made some valuable contributions of the basic sort (removing unnecessary caps, finding grammatical errors etc) but who also tweaked the language without any comprehension of the subject of medieval architecture and became personally abusive when I reverted a few edits and explained why! I don't want to go there again!
Your misericord pics look really good! The two pics of the organ are also excellent. The lizard is a bit fuzzy round the edges, but it's fine at small size. I am so glad that we now have that in, as it's one of the features that everyone knows and loves, even if they don't give a hoot about the splendour of the architecture. Amandajm (talk) 11:41, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Yes, well done Rodw. Wells Cathedral is certainly one of the most well-illustrated articles I've seen. The overall layout is novel and interesting. The misericords pictures are great. Bravo. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:29, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
I may have taken a few of the pics but the credit for the layout etc should go to Amandajm.— Rod talk 12:38, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks, Rod and Martin! I've been working on St Paul's Cathedral as well. Also Chester Cathedral. (My Bro-in-law took a few photos for me there). I think that Wikipedia offers a really good opportunity to use illustrations for an educative purpose. I rewrote Romanesque architecture and hope that anyone who reads it will come away with a really solid knowledge of the subject and be able to look at Romanesque buildings in their own region in an informed manner. Amandajm (talk) 14:43, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Hammet Street, Taunton

Hi Rod, I've created an article in my user space on this street in Taunton that included four listed buildings, none of which are notable on their own. Given your experience with articles in this area, would you be able to take a look (User:Harrias/Hammet Street) and give this something of a copy-edit if you get a chance. I'm not planning to move it into mainspace until I've taken a better photograph, as the current one doesn't really show Hammet Street itself at all. I'm not that confident writing about architecture, so I fully expect that huge chunks of that section may need re-writing! Yours, Harrias talk 16:48, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. I might tap User:Giano up on your advice. I've seen that you've been doing some work on the listed buildings templates and lists; I may well swing by and give you some help with that if I've got some time. I'll probably take some photographs of my own, my wife works on the street, and we only live about a ten minute walk away so it should be easy enough: just got to try and pick a time of day when there aren't too many other people about. Harrias talk 17:30, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Looks good. I'm most likely to work on the Taunton Deane one, but I'll let you know if I get going on it or not; certainly don't feel you should leave it go on my account. Hammet Street is hardly the most picturesque place, so I'm not worried about leaving it until September to upload the photographs for that one, but I'll try my best to get a few done for then. Considering coming up for the Bristol meet-up in a couple of weeks, but I'm pretty busy at the moment, so I'll have to see. Harrias talk 17:46, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

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GA Review

Hi. I have nominated Majura Parkway for GA. I tried to address all the feedback in the failed review at Talk:Majura Parkway/GA1, and double checked to make sure it complied with GA criteria. As I'm a still learning contributor as far as GAs go, and I know you have a lot of experience with GAs. I was wondering if you could review Majura Parkway. (I have also asked other experienced reviewers if they could review; though they all seem otherwise occupied) I would like to improve my ability to get to GA fast, and otherwise increase my understanding of the GA criteria, as i hope to bring more and more articles upto GA status; and therefore I would appreciate a comprehensive review. I will do my best to address any problems you may find. -- Nbound (talk) 12:15, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

LOL i read off the wrong list! - no worries Rodw :) -- Nbound (talk) 12:21, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Wincanton edit

Hi Rod, the link was not at all meant to be promotional, but since the shop was already mentioned on the page, it felt rather incomplete to not give it a reference. Especially given that the twinning is covered extensively and was in part inspired by that very shop. Maybe it would be okay to instead link to their about page at http://www.discworldemporium.com/about-us? In any case, I have included another reference to the economic effects and the inspiration.

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Grade II* listed buildings in Somerset

Hi, apology in the long delay in reply. I have added the reference column and change the location as requested to User:Katie Chan (WMUK)/sandbox. See if that helps. Regarding vertical justification. I'm afraid that's a bug due to how the template is coded. I have tried to fix, but unsuccessfully so far. -- Katie Chan (WMUK) (talk) 11:18, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

I have swapped the order of two columns around as a workaround to the vertical justification issue. It should display as intended now. -- Katie Chan (WMUK) (talk) 13:37, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

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Longforth Farm in Wellington

Hi Rod. I wonder have you seen this yet? Martinevans123 (talk) 21:35, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Dear Rodw, I am so happy every time I look at those misericord pictures! Thanks! Amandajm (talk) 03:33, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 July newsletter

We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's Canada Sasata (submissions) currently leads overall, while Pool B's Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today, London Miyagawa (submissions), with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions), and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by Poland Piotrus (submissions), Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions) and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.

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Hi Rod, thanks for the use of your sandbox. Following Harry's copyedit, it seems that the text has moved over to User:HJ/Sandbox. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 13:43, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

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WLM

Hi Rod, saw your note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bristol/to do. I am not clear on exactly what needs to be done. a template is mentioned, but which template is that. If you see this at work, you can ring me (in the work phone directory. Jezhotwells (talk) 08:49, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

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Grade I listed buildings in Somerset

Hi Rodw, am I right in thinking that Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset is the only list not yet using templates our of the Grade I lists for Somerset? Nev1 (talk) 13:07, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

That's good to hear. As it's being worked on in a sandbox, I'll turn my focus to the remaining Suffolk lists. Nev1 (talk) 13:33, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2013 August newsletter

This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:

  1. Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer who has contributed on topics of military history and physics, including a number of high-importance topics. Good articles have made up the bulk of his points, but he has also scored a great deal of bonus points. He has the second highest score overall so far, with more than 3000 points accumulated.
  2. New South Wales Casliber (submissions), another WikiCup veteran who reached the finals in 2012, 2011 and 2010. He writes on a variety of topics including botany, mycology and astronomy, and has claimed the highest or joint highest number of featured articles every round so far this year. He has the third highest score overall, with just under 3000 points accumulated.
  3. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 WikiCup champion, who writes mostly on marine biology. She has also contributed to high-importance topics, seeing huge numbers of bonus points for high-importance featured and good articles. Previous rounds have seen her scoring the most bonus points, with scoring spread across did you knows, good articles and featured articles.
  4. Canada Sasata (submissions), a WikiCup veteran who finished in second place in 2012, and competed as early as 2009. He writes articles on biology, especially mycology, and has scored highly for a number of collaborations at featured article candidates.
  5. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), the winner of the 2010 competition. His contributions mostly concern Naval history, and he has scored a very large number of points for good articles and good article reviews in every round. He is the highest scorer overall this year, with over 3500 points in total.
  6. Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions), who is competing in the WikiCup for the second time, though this will be her first time in the final. A regular at FAC, she is mostly interested in British medieval history, and has scored very highly for some top-importance featured articles on the topic.
  7. London Miyagawa (submissions), a finalist in 2012 and 2011. He writes on a broad variety of topics, with many of this year's points coming from good articles about Star Trek. Good articles make up the bulk of his points, and he had the most good articles back in round 2; he was also the highest scorer for DYK in rounds 1 and 2.
  8. Scotland Adam Cuerden (submissions) has previously been involved with the WikiCup, but hasn't participated for a number of years. He scores mostly from restoration work leading to featured picture credits, but has also done some article writing and reviewing.

We say goodbye to eight great participants who did not qualify for the final: Poland Piotrus (submissions), Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), Ohio ThaddeusB (submissions), Michigan Dana boomer (submissions), Prince Edward Island Status (submissions), United States Ed! (submissions), Florida 12george1 (submissions), England Calvin999 (submissions). Having made it to this stage is still an excellent achievement, and you can leave with your heads held high. We hope to see you all again next year. Signups are now open for the 2014 WikiCup, which will begin on 1 January. All Wikipedians, whatever their interest or level of experience, are warmly invited to participate in next year's competition.

This last month has seen some incredible contributions; for instance, Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work. A mention of everything done is impossible, but here are a few: Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles. ThaddeusB contributed significantly to over 20 articles which appeared on the main page's "in the news" section. Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone. The WikiCup is not just about top-importance featured articles, and the work of all of these users is worthy of commendation.

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Hi Rod, Thanks for letting me know - I thought that as it was buying direct from the producer it was ok, but understand that that kind of thing would be very hard to police. Will make sure I don't do that again! Thanks, David Dwjack22 (talk) 15:52, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination

Hello! Your submission of Barrow Court at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Hi Rod. Like the article, but IMHO the hook needs a better ref or tweaking to match the existing refs. I had a go, but wasn't happy with the result, so binned it. Ref 5 seems to be incorrectly linked to a restaurant site - perhaps that is the one that best supported the hook. Hope that helps. Rgds. Bermicourt (talk) 20:57, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 September newsletter

In 30 days, we will know the identity of our 2013 WikiCup champion. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) currently leads; if that lead is held, she will become the first person to have won the WikiCup twice. Canada Sasata (submissions), Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions)—who has never participated in the competition before—and New South Wales Casliber (submissions) follow. The majority of points in this round have come from a mix of good articles and bonus points. This final round is seeing contributions to a number of highly important topics; recent submissions include Phoenix (constellation) (FA by Casliber), Ernest Lawrence (GA by Hawkeye7), Pinniped, and red fox (both GAs by Sasata).

The did you know (DYK) eligibility criteria have recently changed, meaning that newly passed good articles are accepted as "new" for did you know purposes. However, in the interests of not changing the WikiCup rules mid-competition, please note that only articles eligible for DYK under the old system (that is, newly created articles or 5x expansions) will be eligible for points in this year's WikiCup. We do, however, have time to discuss how this new system will work for next year's competition; a discussion will be opened in due course. On that note, thoughts are welcome on changes you'd like to see for next year. What worked? What didn't work? What would you like to see more of? What would you like to see less of? All Wikipedians, new or old, are also warmly invited to sign up for the 2014 WikiCup.

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Brislington House

Hi Rodw, I've just been looking at the article you created for Brislington House as I was intending to do the DYK nomination review for it - what an interesting article! I'm a little bit confused by the sentence "All buildings were made from wood and iron, avoiding the use of wood because of the potential fire hazard." Should this read made from 'metal' and iron? Also, by 'buildings' is it referring to windows, doors, floor joist, blinds etc as given in the detailed page of Images of England - it's maybe me just reading this totally incorrectly though as I do seem to have my stupid head on today! Would you mind having a quick look, please? Thanks! SagaciousPhil - Chat 14:59, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting that. I've finished going through the article now and only just realised there isn't an inline cite for the Frank Miles para; if you can add that the nom is good to go. SagaciousPhil - Chat 16:35, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
Brilliant, thank you. I've added the green tick to the nomination. The article really interested me because when I was a child (many, many years ago) I spent an enormous amount of time playing in the expansive grounds of a now defunct 'asylum' in England (very hastily adds - my parents were both in the medical profession and worked there, so no, I wasn't an inmate!) SagaciousPhil - Chat 17:19, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Barrow Court

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Taunton...

Hi Rod!

Your edit to Taunton Castle just now noted that "It has been been repaired but has been added to the Heritage at Risk register as it remains unoccupied." I'm not sure the link given supports that - it says that "the castle is not at risk" and states that it is not a new entry (i.e. it hasn't been newly added in the current listing) - rather, it's improved from category C to F over the last year. I'm wondering it "Due to its condition it was placed on Heritage at Risk register and underwent necessary repairs, but as of 2013 is still unoccupied." might be better? Hchc2009 (talk) 09:14, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Brislington House

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Glastonbury Tor

Hi there, I have gone through the first two sections on the above article and have left you some hidden comments. I have also put my thoughts on the articles talk page. Could you pop over at your leisure? Cheers. -- CassiantoTalk 19:46, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Trinity Centre

Hi Rodw

I work for Bristol & Region Archaeological Services and we are currently doing some work at the Trinity Centre, Bristol. I was looking at one of the section that (I think) you wrote, which states that when the church was deconsecrated burials were removed to Arnos Vale - do you happen to know where this information came from?

Thanks

Muddybootz (talk) 14:07, 30 October 2013 (UTC)Muddybootz

Thanks Rod, I will chase up those leads! Muddybootz (talk) 15:03, 30 October 2013 (UTC)Muddybootz

WikiCup 2013 October newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our champion, for the second year running, is Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Our final nine were as follows:

  1. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions)
  2. Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions)
  3. Canada Sasata (submissions)
  4. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions)
  5. New South Wales Casliber (submissions)
  6. Scotland Adam Cuerden (submissions)
  7. London Miyagawa (submissions)
  8. Poland Piotrus (submissions)
  9. Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions)

All those who reached the final win prizes, and prizes will also be going to the following participants:

  • New South Wales Casliber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for four featured articles in round 4, worth 400 points.
  • Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 20 good articles in round 3, worth 600 points.
  • Portland, Oregon Another Believer (submissions) wins the FL prize, for four featured lists in round 2, worth 180 points.
  • Scotland Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the FP prize, for 23 featured pictures in round 5, worth 805 point.
  • Republic of Rose Island Sven Manguard (submissions) wins the FPo prize, for 2 featured portals in round 3, worth 70 points.
  • Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions) wins the topic prize, for a 23-article featured topic in round 5, worth 230 points.
  • Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 79 did you know articles in round 5, worth 570 points.
  • Ohio ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 23 in the news articles in round 4, worth 270 points.
  • United States Ed! (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 24 good article reviews in round 1, worth 96 points.
  • The judges are awarding the Oddball Barnstar to British Empire The C of E (submissions), for some curious contributions in earlier rounds.
  • Finally, the judges are awarding Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) the Geography Barnstar for her work on sea, now a featured article. This top-importance article was the highest-scoring this year; when it was promoted to FA status, Cwmhiraeth could claim 720 points.

Prizes will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition. While it has been an excellent year, errors have opened up the judges' eyes to the need for a third judge, and it is with pleasure that we announce that experienced WikiCup participant Miyagawa will be acting as a judge from now on. We hope you will all join us in welcoming him to the team.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. Brainstorming and discussion remains open for how next year's competition will work, and straw polls will be opened by the judges soon. Those interested in friendly competition may also like to keep an eye on the stub contest, being organised by Casliber. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 00:53, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup award

In recognition of your participation in the 2013 Wikipedia:WikiCup, in which you reached round 3, the quarter-finals. J Milburn (talk · contribs) and The ed17 (talk · contribs) 12:02, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Barnstar

Aw, bless you Rod. Where did you get that brilliant choice of words? ;) Cheers, --MartinPoulter (talk) 22:54, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

The Old Lodge

Thanks for your improvements to the Old Lodge article! Regards, -- The Anome (talk) 16:00, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

The Quarter Million Award

The Quarter Million Award
For your contributions to bring Somerset (estimated annual readership: 301,000) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Quarter Million Award. Congratulations, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:35, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
The Quarter Million Award
For your contributions to bring Bath, Somerset (estimated annual readership: 451,000) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Quarter Million Award. Congratulations, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:35, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Hey, congrats on these! Thanks for working on such high-traffic articles. -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:32, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Wells Cathedral

Lovely picture! I've just made room for it, right at the bottom of the page.

Also, immediately after History there needs to be a section Ministry which states that the cathedral has a dean and chapter, and that it holds services every day. That it has evensongs, choral communions, etc, That it has activities of whatever sort, that it place s a part in local music, in festivals and government. That it is open to the public every day for worship and tourism, or whatever.

Amandajm (talk) 00:28, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Choir/retrochoir etc fixed. Amandajm (talk) 09:53, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
I looked at John's comment , and tweaked this and that. I also found the ultimate quote from Harvey and have inserted it into the lead. How many art historians does it take to turn on a light globe? That is the question! they all agree that it is the finest sculptured facade in Britain, but people seem to have trouble with this. I found another quote that says "the finest array of 13th-century sculpture in Northern Europe outside France" but because it has three qualifiers, it's not really useful, unless your average reader knows what this means, or can at least interpret the implication.
Well, we've won John, who says that he is going there! That is something.
Congratulations on your Somerset articles!
I have sent a version of the article on Wells, along with Chester Cathedral, and the article Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England to the printer, using the book maker in the left column. I am giving it to my Bro-in-law for Christmas (if it arrives safely) as he took many of the photos in the Chester Cathedral article.
You could do the same for your Somerset articles. They would make a nice book, and cost about 10-15 BP (I have an Australian keyboard. It doesn't do pounds)
If you do this, you will find that the paired pics don't format well for the book. My solution was to drop the entire article into my sandbox and remove the pics from the galleries and make them ordinary thumbnails. (You don't have to size them as there is a standard in the book's program.
When you make the book, you then find that you have a chapter with a link to your sandbox, so you just rename the link in exactly the way you would rename any other link: Wells Cathedral, (except that right now my sandbox has Stained glass in it)
nice pressie!
Amandajm (talk) 02:12, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Scheduled monuments

Rod, when I was hacking Brown's Gatehouse, Wells for a template for Chain gate, I noticed that the link in the reference for the scheduled monument was dead and I am having no luck finding it on that website. --Derek Andrews (talk) 16:33, 20 November 2013 (UTC)


Maynard Terrace wikipage

Hi Rod

Thankyou for the welcome and edits on the page and links to the page from other wiki pages.

As you may have guessed I am new to his but hoping to add to the history of Clutton over time. I live on Maynard so this is the obvious start!

Can I ask a quick question. The page is flagged as an orphan but you have added links to the page. Does this mean it is now technically not an orphan and I can remove the orphan tag, or is this done automatically.

Also, I have had a notification to remove the old photo as the source says not for profit use and this goes against wiki rules. A bit if a shame but will remove it for now and I'll try track down the oweners of the photo so it can go back again. I also have lots of sales history for the whole of the Warwick estate but again will need to sort out copyright

Thanks Alan AlanB100 (talk) 20:19, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Brislington House

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Brislington House you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Casliber -- Casliber (talk) 09:42, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Bullying

I am sorry to say that I have found it necessary to complain about Eric Corbett's behaviour on the Wells Cathedral talk page. [1] The threat about what he will do if the article goes up for FA really annoyed me. You have put so much hard work in.

Amandajm (talk) 03:42, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

I didn't threaten to do anything Bill/Amanda. Eric Corbett 03:54, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
I'm sorry that you two can't agree/negotiate. I am grateful to you both for all your work on the article.— Rod talk 08:29, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
Eric Corbett's threat was to the FA process of the article, not to me personally.
Rodw, please do not demean my contribution to the article by drawing some parallel with Eric Corbett's.
Previously, under the guise of George Pondevero, Eric Corbett had insulted me, by name half a dozen times in his edit summaries to this article "Anyone would have thought that you would know that, Amandajm" etc etc etc. He returned to the scene of his previous unpleasantness to continue his belittling under a different name.
Eric's contribution has been formatting about 30 dashes correctly, using script assistance of some sort, and formatting a number of references.
He has made about 25-30 tweaks to expression that were passable, but mostly unnecessary,
has made seven edits that were inappropriate or clumsily worded,
has made two edits that substantially changed the meanings and were erroneous,
has indulged in the which/that edit war,
has bullied a major contributor to the article
and for his contribution, he has succeeded in saving about 60 times, after every little tweak (apart from the dashes) and , which makes Eric Corbett look like a major contributor and boosts his ultimate edit count, while actually contributing very little more than a great deal of stress, and the assisted formatting of the dashes between the years.
Eric Corbett has contributed nothing of substance whatsoever, and has made the process of editing extremely unpleasant for at least two other contributors. Please do not make any comparison between our input to this article.
Amandajm (talk) 02:37, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Rodw, there are people such as yourself who bring to Wikipedia a mindset of creating something good in the company of other dedicated people.
There are others for whom the process is a power-game. The point-scoring system to some people is about readership, gold stars, DYKS and friendships. To others, point-scoring means taking out other individuals by whatever means. You can only work with a person of that mindset for so-long before you disagree with them and they turn nasty.
There are others on Wikipedia, who can be productive contributors, but who, as a sideline, enjoy provoking trouble among other people.
I don't want to work with such people, regardless of their abilities. Ultimately, it turns sour. Amandajm (talk) 09:01, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
  • @ Amandajm, I won't dignify your attack on Eric Corbett with a defense or list of his Wikipedia achievements, but I will point out that if editing a page which is being edited by many others in the same period, it's always a good idea to save frequently. You do seem to be now rather scraping the empty barrel to justify your own behavior - which was not impressive. No one doubts your devotion to the project and history; your awareness of ancient buildings is wide. However, your comprehension of architecture is naive and your pronouncements on the subject seem to be gleaned from long out-of-date architectural theories and essays. Your prose has a tendency to be verbose and outdated. Enthusiastic amateurs are to be encouraged, but not if it's at the expense of others, and I strongly feel that you have ridden roughshod of the work and views of others. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but I think it needed to be said. Apologies to Rod for using your page like this.  Giano  09:58, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Brislington House

File:Brislington House chapel cosmetically improved.JPG
Sunny Day, green trees, flowers in the lawn, cast shadows. Just don't look too hard!

The article Brislington House you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Brislington House for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Casliber -- Casliber (talk) 14:03, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Rodw, your pictures were taken on a very dull day. I'll lighten them up a bit and increase the contrast, which will show more detail. Amandajm (talk) 12:16, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
I brightened them both, and upped the contrast, but I didn't want to over-do it, so they both still look suitably gloomy. Amandajm (talk) 12:40, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Wells Cathedral

Hi Rod. I believe I made a number of suggestions and copyedited this article at an earlier stage. Sorry I wasn't productive in your peer review, but I could see masters like Tim riley and Amanda have been involved with it so it looked in good hands. If it's OK I'd still like to give it a read before you present to FAC.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:16, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I thought it might be controversial, it looks like a country house but if it was never used as a country residence I supposed it shouldn't be categorized as such.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:31, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Rodw! I'm just trying to take in the suggestions that require rewording . I notice you dropped in a reference to the very useful Wim Swaan. (They are such beautiful books) I'll see what I can do. I'll put the article on inuse for a little while so that I don't have to compete with other people tweaking minor stuff. Can you chck back in a bit and make sure I remove the banner. I get a bit forgetful, given it's rather late already in the Antipodes and someone has just walked in the door to demand supper. Amandajm (talk) 11:38, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Bishop's Palace

I think that is a tidy little article that should go up for DYK. What is the most interesting thing? The fact that the great hall became a ruin because the bishop sold the lead off the roof? Or the fact that there is a chair which some poor soul sat on while he was being tried as a heretic? Amandajm (talk) 12:06, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Never mind! The discussion is still going over the lead pic. I'm quite happy with the postcard, until/unless you can come up with a better pic, but not on a freezing grey day, like the hospital! There is a limit to what I am prepared to do to an image. Do you want to see how they would look with the sun shining?

Amandajm (talk) 17:04, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Glastonbury Tor

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Glastonbury Tor you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of J Milburn -- J Milburn (talk) 18:01, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Wells Cathedral from the reflecting pool at the Bishops Palace (composite)

Wells Cathedral

Hi Rod, I've had a crack at that image for you. The colours might seem a little washed out compared to your versions, but I think it's probably closer to the real thing than it was. FYI, here are the steps that I took:

1) Assess each photograph for composition. No.5 looked like the best starting point as it shows the entire reflection and is nicely plumb (almost). I also liked no.4 because of the way the tree in the top right frames the image (and no.5 lacked a little headroom).
2) Perform lens corrections. Reduced chromatic abberation and rotated no.5 by 0.8 degrees.
3) Place no.4 as a new layer atop no.5. (I'll call them layer 4 and layer 5.)
4) Auto-align layers. I did this over and over with different settings until I found a happy medium (cylindrical projection with geometric distortion removal).
5) Blend layers by hand using a mask, so that layer 4 shows everything above the water line, layer 5 shows the water/reflection.
6) Adjust the brightness/contrast of each image for a better match. Increase vibrance slightly.
7) Erased sign at the bottom using cloning/healing, then cropped/flattened.
8) Applied a slight S-curve adjustment.
9) Sharpened using unsharp mask.

I hope that's of some use to you. Don't worry, I won't be offended if it's not your cup of tea, I enjoyed working on it all the same. Any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Oh, and I have a Photoshop file that I can Dropbox to you if you like. Kind regards, nagualdesign (talk) 16:08, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:YouPorncom.png

Hi, Jolly Janner.

I was wondering if you had ever received any complaint about the picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:YouPorncom.png you have posted on Wikipedia in 2010. The reason I am asking is that my company has accused me of disseminating explicitly pornographic images when I sent a message with a link to our IT Department with a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouPorn, precisely to advice them to set a company filter to their Internet specially to avoid staff to access web sites with inappropriate content.

Your answer will be appreciated, since I risk to loose my job. '- - ~ ~ ~ ~' - - ~ ~ ~ ~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.162.53.237 (talk) 02:22, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

I have no idea what this message relates to. I am not Jolly Janner and have never seen the image.— Rod talk 08:05, 18 December 2013 (UTC)